CHAPTER XXIII.
BUFFALO BILL’S HOLD-UP.
Matt Shepard bounced quickly into the room occupied by Wild Bill Hickok, at the Eagle House.
“Excuse me!” he said. “But if what I hear is so, Tim Benson has got out o’ the town!”
Wild Bill, who had been sitting comfortably by the window, came to his feet with a jump.
“Do you reckon it’s so?” he asked.
“They say he took the stage; that he was the man that was seen to git on. It was only after the stage had pulled out, that Barney, the stableboy, decided that the one man who went as a passenger was Benson. Barney has got keen eyes, and I’m bettin’ his guess is the truth. If so, Benson fooled me complete.”
Matt Shepard turned back to the door when he had delivered this.
“I thought I’d tell you,” he said. “I’m goin’ to git some men together and shack right out after that stage. Benson has fooled me so many times——”